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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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1906
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Gabriela
Schütz
Heinrich
W.
Ursprung
Ludger
Woessmann
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Education Policy and Equality of Opportunity
We provide a measure of equality of educational opportunity in 54 countries, estimated as the effect of family background on student performance in two international TIMSS tests. We then show how ...
(published in: Kyklos, 2008, 61 (2), 279-308)
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I21, J62, H52
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1905
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Thomas
Dohmen
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Do Professionals Choke Under Pressure?
High rewards or the threat of severe punishment do not only provide incentives to exert high levels of effort but also create pressure. Such pressure can cause paradoxical performance effects, namely ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 65, 636-653)
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M54, Z13
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1904
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Christian
Holzner
Andrey
Launov
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Search Equilibrium, Production Parameters and Social Returns to Education: Theory and Estimation
We introduce different skill groups and production functions into the Burdett-Mortensen equilibrium search model. Supermodularity in the production process leads to a positive intrafirm wage ...
(revised version published as 'Search Equilibrium and Social and Private Returns to Education' in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (1), 39-59)
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J21, J23, J64
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1903
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Panu
Poutvaara
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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results
Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2008, 21 (3), 679-684)
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F22, J24, I21
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1901
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Eric
A.
Hanushek
Ludger
Woessmann
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Does Educational Tracking Affect Performance and Inequality? Differences-in-Differences Evidence across Countries
Even though some countries track students into differing-ability schools by age 10, others keep their entire secondary-school system comprehensive. To estimate the effects of such institutional ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (510), C63-C76)
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I2
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1900
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
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Big Fish in Small Pond or Small Fish in Big Pond? An Analysis of Job Mobility
The statement that individuals care for status and for their position within a hierarchy has been subject to sparse economic analysis. I check this assertion by analyzing wages and status within the ...
(published as 'Money and rank in the labor market' in: Economics Letters, 2012, 115 (2), 325 - 328)
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J63, J31, J41
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1899
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Refet
S.
Gürkaynak
Justin
Wolfers
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Macroeconomic Derivatives: An Initial Analysis of Market-Based Macro Forecasts, Uncertainty and Risk
In September 2002, a new market in "Economic Derivatives" was launched allowing traders to take positions on future values of several macroeconomic data releases. We provide an initial analysis of ...
(published in: NBER International Seminar on Macroeconomics, 2005, 11 - 50)
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C23, D21, J50, L13
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1897
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Tuomas
Pekkarinen
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Gender Differences in Educational Attainment: Evidence on the Role of the Tracking Age from a Finnish Quasi-Experiment
This paper studies the relationship between the timing of tracking of pupils into vocational and academic secondary education and gender differences in educational attainment and income. We argue ...
(revised version published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008, 110 (4), 807-826)
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I20, J16
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1896
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Kai
Christoffel
Tobias
Linzert
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The Role of Real Wage Rigidity and Labor Market Frictions for Unemployment and Inflation Dynamics
In this paper we incorporate a labor market with matching frictions and wage rigidities into the New Keynesian business cycle model. In particular, we analyze the effect of a monetary policy shock ...
(published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2010, 42 (7), 1435-1446)
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E52, J64, E32, E31
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1895
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
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Do Emotions Improve Labor Market Outcomes?
This chapter argues that the neglect of emotion in economic models explains their inability to predict important aspects of the labor market. We focus on one example: firms frequently cut real wages, ...
(published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007)
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E24, E31, E32, B49
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1892
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Subhayu
Bandyopadhyay
Howard
J.
Wall
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Oligopoly and Outsourcing
With outsourcing comes a perceived tension between the competitive pressures faced by domestic firms and the effect that outsourcing has on domestic workers. To address this tension, we present a ...
(published in: Economics and Politics, 2007, 19 (2), 219-234)
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F1, F2, J3
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1891
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Joachim
R.
Frick
Jan
Goebel
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a ...
(published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(4), 555-577)
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C81, D31, D63
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1890
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Lorenz
Götte
David
B.
Huffman
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Affect as a Source of Motivation in the Workplace: A New Model of Labor Supply, and New Field Evidence on Income Targeting and the Goal Gradient
In this chapter we propose a new, dual-process model of labor supply, which incorporates both cognitive and affective aspects of decision-making. Consistent with evidence from neuroscience, the ...
(published in: Vohs, K.D, Baumeister, R.F; Loewenstein, G. (eds.): Do emotions help or hurt decision making? A Hedgefoxian Perspective, New York, Sage, 2007)
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J22, L2, B49
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1889
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Amihai
Glazer
Vesa
Kanniainen
Panu
Poutvaara
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Income Taxes, Property Values and Migration
We consider taxation by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous locations within a country. We show that a utilitarian government never equalizes after-tax incomes, even when it can ...
(published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2008, 92 (3-4), 915-923)
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H21, H7, R21, R23
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1888
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Erling
Barth
Harald
Dale-Olsen
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Employer Size or Skill-Group Size Effect on Wages?
It turns out that the employer-size effect on individual wages dwindles away once one control for the number of workers of the same skill-group (educational type) as the observed individual within ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 64(2), 341-355)
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J31
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1887
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Adriaan
Kalwij
Frederic
Vermeulen
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Labour Force Participation of the Elderly in Europe: The Importance of Being Healthy
In this paper we study labour force participation behaviour of individuals aged 50-64 in 11 European countries. The data are drawn from the new Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe ...
(published as: "Health and labour force participation of older people in Europe: what do objective health indicators add to the analysis?" in: Health Economics, 2008, 17(5), 619-638. )
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I10, J22, J26
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1884
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Alison
L.
Booth
Jan
C.
van Ours
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Hours of Work and Gender Identity: Does Part-Time Work Make the Family Happier?
Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and happiness. We use panel data from the new Household, Income and Labor Dynamics in ...
(published in: Economica, 2009, 76 (301), 176-196)
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J22, I31, J16
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1883
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Eric
D.
Gould
Victor
Lavy
M. Daniele
Paserman
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Does Immigration Affect the Long-Term Educational Outcomes of Natives? Quasi-Experimental Evidence
This paper uses the mass migration wave to Israel in the 1990s to examine the impact of immigrant concentration during elementary school on the long-term academic outcomes of native students in high ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2009, 119 (540), 1243-1269.)
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I20, J24
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1882
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Daniel
J.
Henderson
Alexandre
Olbrecht
Solomon
Polachek
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Do Former College Athletes Earn More at Work? A Nonparametric Assessment
This paper investigates how students' collegiate athletic participation affects their subsequent labor market success. It uses newly developed distributional tests to establish that the wage ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2006, 41(3), 558-577)
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C14, J10, J30, J40, L83
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1880
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Maria
Saez-Marti
Yves
Zenou
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Cultural Transmission and Discrimination
Each worker belongs to either the majority or the minority group and, irrespective of the group she belongs to, can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to ...
(published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2012, 72 (2-3), 137-146)
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J15, J71
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1879
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Christian
Grund
Dirk
Sliwka
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Reference Dependent Preferences and the Impact of Wage Increases on Job Satisfaction: Theory and Evidence
The impact of wage increases on job satisfaction is explored theoretically and empirically. To do this, we apply a utility function that rises with the absolute wage level as well as with wage ...
(published in: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2007, 163 (2), 313-335)
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M54, J28, J30, M12
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1877
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Zhong
Zhao
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Analysis of Health and Longevity in Oldest-Old Population: A Health Capital Approach
Using 2002 cross-sectional data and 1998, 2000, 2002 three waves of panel data from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey, we study health in oldest old population. We measure health ...
(published in: Zeng Yi et al. (eds.), Healthy Longevity in China: Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Psychological Dimensions, Berlin et al., 2008 )
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I12, J14, I18
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1876
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Lutz
C.
Kaiser
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Gender-Job Satisfaction Differences across Europe: An Indicator for Labor Market Modernization
In 14 member states of the European Union, women's relative to men's levels of job satisfaction are compared by using data of the European Household Community Panel. The countries under consideration ...
(published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2007, 28 (1), 75-94 )
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J28
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1874
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Daniele
Checchi
Vito
Peragine
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Regional Disparities and Inequality of Opportunity: The Case of Italy
In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an "ethically offensive" and an "ethically acceptable" part. Moreover, we provide ...
(published as 'Inequality of opportunity in Italy' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2010, 8 (4), 429-450)
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D63
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1873
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Zhong
Zhao
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Sensitivity of Propensity Score Methods to the Specifications
Propensity score matching estimators have two advantages. One is that they overcome the curse of dimensionality of covariate matching, and the other is that they are nonparametric. However, the ...
(revised version published in: Economics Letters , 2008, 98 (3), 309-319)
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C21, C14, C15, C16, C52
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1871
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Holger
Bonin
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Tarifpolitik und Entgeltflexibilität in Ostdeutschland
Der Beitrag beschreibt die Lohnpolitik in Ostdeutschland seit der Wiedervereinigung und präsentiert empirische Evidenz für die Hypothese, dass überhöhte Tarifabschlüsse das aus dem Westen übernommene ...
(published in: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung / Journal for Labour Market Research, 2005, 38 (2-3), 147-164)
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J31, J51, P52
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1870
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Michael
R.
Ransom
Ronald
L.
Oaxaca
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Sex Differences in Pay in a "New Monopsony" Model of the Labor Market
We use a simple framework, adopted from general equilibrium search models, to estimate the extent to which monopsony power (or labor market frictions) can account for gender differences in pay, using ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28(2), 267-289)
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J42, J71
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1869
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Sascha
O.
Becker
Samuel
Bentolila
Ana
Fernandes
Andrea
Ichino
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Job Insecurity and Youth Emancipation: A Theoretical Approach
In this paper, we propose a theoretical model to study the effect of income insecurity of parents and offspring on the child's residential choice. Parents are partially altruistic toward their ...
(published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contribution to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2008, 8 (1), Article 19)
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D1, J1, J2
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1867
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Nauro
F.
Campos
Francesco
Giovannoni
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The Determinants of Asset Stripping: Theory and Evidence from the Transition Economies
During the transition from plan to market, managers and politicians succeeded in maintaining control of large parts of the stock of socialist physical capital. Despite the obvious importance of this ...
(published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2006, 49 (2), 681-706)
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H82, K42, O17, P26, P31
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1866
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John
T.
Addison
C. R.
Barrett
W. Stanley
Siebert
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Building Blocks in the Economics of Mandates
The paper constructs an asymmetric information model to investigate the efficiency and equity cases for government mandated benefits. A mandate can improve workers' insurance, and may also ...
(published in: Portuguese Economic Journal, 2006, 5 (2), 69 - 87)
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D82, J33
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1865
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Ana Rute
Cardoso
Miguel
Portela
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The Provision of Wage Insurance by the Firm: Evidence from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Dataset
We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in ...
(published as 'Micro foundations for wage flexibility: Wage insurance at the firm level' in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, 111 (1), 29-50)
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C33, D21, J33, J41
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1864
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Sandra
E.
Black
Paul
J.
Devereux
Kjell
G.
Salvanes
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From the Cradle to the Labor Market? The Effect of Birth Weight on Adult Outcomes
Lower birth weight babies have worse outcomes, both short-run in terms of one-year mortality rates and longer run in terms of educational attainment and earnings. However, recent research has called ...
(published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2007, 122 (1), 409-439)
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J1, I1
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1863
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Hartmut
Egger
Peter
Egger
Josef
Falkinger
Volker
Grossmann
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International Capital Market Integration, Educational Choice and Economic Growth
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends ...
(published as 'The Impact of Capital Market Integration on Educational Choice and the Consequences for Economic Growth' in: World Economy, 2010, 33 (10), 1241-1268)
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F20, H52, J24, O10
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1862
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Michele
Pellizzari
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Employers' Search and the Efficiency of Matching
Unskilled workers in low productivity jobs typically experience higher labour turnover. This paper shows how this empirical finding is related to variation in the efficiency of the matching process ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011, 49(1), 25-53)
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J63, J64, M51
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1861
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Yves
Zenou
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The Todaro Paradox Revisited
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this ...
(revised version published as 'Rural-Urban Migration and Unemployment: Theory and Policy Implications' in: Journal of Regional Science, 2011, 51 (1), 65 - 82)
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D83, J41, J64, O15
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1860
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Dan
T.
Rosenbaum
Christopher
J.
Ruhm
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The Cost of Caring for Young Children
This study examines the "cost burden" of child care, defined as day care expenses divided by after-tax income. Data are from the wave 10 core and child care topical modules to the 1996 Survey of ...
(published as 'Family Expenditures on Child Care' in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Topics in Economic Analysis and Policy, 2007, 7(1), Article 34)
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J13, J18, J22
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1859
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Juan
J.
Dolado
Florentino
Felgueroso
Miguel
Almunia
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Do Men and Women-Economists Choose the Same Research Fields? Evidence from Top-50 Departments
This paper describes the gender distribution of research fields chosen by the faculty members in the top fifty Economics departments, according to the rankings available on the Econphd.net website. ...
(published in: SERIEs, Journal of the Spanish Economic Association (2012), 3, 367-393.)
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A11, J16, J70
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1857
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Sarah
Crichton
Steven
Stillman
Dean
R.
Hyslop
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Returning to Work from Injury: Longitudinal Evidence on Employment and Earnings
New Zealand has a unique accident insurance system that pays the direct costs of all accidental injuries and compensates workers 80% of their earnings for any time post-injury that they are unable to ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2011, 50 (1), 763-83)
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J28, C21, J24
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1855
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Patricia
Apps
Ray
Rees
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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy over the Life Cycle
In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are ...
(published in: Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 2005, 21(3), 439-461)
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J16, J22, H31, D91
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1854
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Kenn
Ariga
Giorgio
Brunello
Roki
Iwahashi
Lorenzo
Rocco
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Why Is the Timing of School Tracking So Heterogeneous?
Secondary schools in the developed world differ in the degree of differentiation and in the first age of selection of pupils into different tracks. In this paper, we account for the heterogeneity of ...
(substantial revision published as 'On the efficiency costs of de-tracking secondary schools in Europe" in: Education Economics, [iFirst])
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H52, H73
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1853
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Stephen
Machin
Olivier
Marie
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Crime and Police Resources: The Street Crime Initiative
In this paper we look at links between police resources and crime in a different way to the existing economics of crime work. To do so we focus on a large-scale policy intervention – the Street Crime ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2011, 9 (4), 678 - 701)
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H00, H5, K42
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1852
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Harminder
Battu
McDonald
Mwale
Yves
Zenou
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Oppositional Identities and the Labor Market
We develop a model in which non-white individuals are defined with respect to their social environment (family, friends, neighbors) and their attachments to their culture of origin (religion, ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 643 - 667)
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A14, J15
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1851
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William
E.
Encinosa III
Martin
Gaynor
James
B.
Rebitzer
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The Sociology of Groups and the Economics of Incentives: Theory and Evidence on Compensation Systems
When working together, people engage in non-contractual and informal interactions that constitute the sociology of the group. We use behavioral models and a unique survey of medical groups to analyze ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2007, 62 (2), 187-214)
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D21, D22, J40, J41
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1850
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Denis
Fougère
Thierry
Kamionka
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Econometrics of Individual Labor Market Transitions
This survey is devoted to the modelling and the estimation of reduced-form transition models, which have been extensively used and estimated in labor microeconometrics. The first section contains a ...
(published in: Patrick Sevestre and Lazlo Matyas (eds.), The Econometrics of Panel Data: Handbook of Theory and Applications, 3rd ed., Springer, 2008, 865-905)
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C41, C51, J64
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1849
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Jérôme
Adda
Francesca
Cornaglia
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Taxes, Cigarette Consumption and Smoking Intensity
This paper analyses the compensatory behavior of smokers. Exploiting data on cotinine concentration – a metabolite of nicotine – measured in a large population of smokers over time, we show that ...
(published in: American Economic Review, 2006, 96 (4), 1013-1028)
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I1
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1848
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Annette
Bergemann
Bernd
Fitzenberger
Stefan
Speckesser
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Evaluating the Dynamic Employment Effects of Training Programs in East Germany Using Conditional Difference-in-Differences
This study analyzes the employment effects of training in East Germany. We propose and apply an extension of the widely used conditional difference-in-differences evaluation method. Focusing on ...
(revised version published in: Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2009, 24 (5), 797-823)
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C14, C23, H43, J64, J68
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1847
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John
Ermisch
Marco
Francesconi
Thomas
Siedler
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Intergenerational Economic Mobility and Assortative Mating
We use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the extent of intergenerational economic mobility in a framework that highlights the role played by ...
(published in: Economic Journal, 2006, 116 (513), 659-679)
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J12, I20, D31, D64
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1846
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Christopher
R.
Bollinger
Barry
Hirsch
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Match Bias from Earnings Imputation in the Current Population Survey: The Case of Imperfect Matching
This paper examines alternative forms of match bias arising from earnings imputation. Wage equation parameters are estimated based on mixed samples of workers who do and do not report earnings, the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2006, 24 (3), 483-519)
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J31, C81, C10
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1845
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Werner
Eichhorst
Ole
Wintermann
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms: The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Policy advice can help political actors design and implement institutional reforms through the generation of political and substantial legitimacy. This article clarifies the institutional ...
(published in: German Policy Studies, 2006, 3 (2), 268-309; also published as 'De l'expertise aux politiques publiques : l'exemple de l'Allemagne, des Pays-Bas et de la Suède' in: Problèmes Economiques, 2006, No. 2.912 )
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H83, J58
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1843
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Thierry
Lallemand
Robert
Plasman
François
Rycx
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Women and Competition in Elimination Tournaments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Data
This paper examines how professional female tennisplayers react to: i) prize incentives and ii) heterogeneity in ex ante players' abilities. It is found that a larger prize spread encourages women to ...
(published in: Journal of Sports Economics, 2008, 9 (1), 3-19)
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J33, J41, M12
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